lowededwookie

What I love about the Calculator app is that it always gives the correct answer... assuming you haven't "Garbage in Garbage out" it.

You'd be surprised at how many cheap and nasty calculators give the wrong answer to this simple equation:

1 + 2 * 3

Most calculators will give the answer as 9 because they do this:

1 = + 2 = * 3 =

So instead of doing the equation as

2 * 3 = 6 + 1 = 7

It does

1 + 2 = 3 * 3 = 9

I understand why they do this. Cheap calculators don't have memory and thus they have to equals everything out at each point. It's then up to you to get the input correct.

Which brings me to Calculator in Windows.

Why is it that when in Basic mode Windows Calculator operates like a calculator that has no memory despite having large amounts of memory available to it? It then works correctly when you turn it into Scientific mode. This means Microsoft purposefully wrote two lots of calculation code for no good reason. That's why Windows is a bloated piece of junk.

nubus said:

EU proposed the legislation 4 years ago and it was signed in April 2022. It is hardly a surprise to Apple that Spotify would submit an app for review.

And we all know the next steps:

1. A politician (probably French or Belgian) will make a bombastic statement on X/Twitter on Friday, and Apple will then approve the app on Saturday.
2. Someone here will complain that EU is communist, bureaucratic, and/or corrupt. Even though Apple is mainly getting their products manufactured in a "communist" country and on corruption the US is doing worse than 11 countries in EU... but the story is once again that EU is the worst thing ever.
3. And someone will complain about the courts or the legislation or something else. This is mainly due to the use of common law in US/UK while EU is - like most of the world - isn't using common law.
4. Stock owners will bleed again. 

But at the core... why didn't Apple expect Spotify to submit an app?

You seem to not understand the situation. Yes Apple knew it was coming so why does whinie cry baby Spotify not understand that what the EU has done has made the problem worse for developers as Apple now has to adhere to a completely unthought out set of rules with each new app being released for the EU market.

So not only does Apple have to check that your data isn’t being siphoned by crooks, these apps aren’t doing anything dodgy or illegal, aren’t going to introduce issues, aren’t going to break people’s phones, aren’t going to give easy access to pornography to minors, aren’t going to take photos of children in compromising situations and upload those to bad sites, etc etc etc, but now Apple has to make sure all of these checks are being done in such a way the EU is happy.

If I was Apple, Spotify would be pushed to bottom of the priority list because at least small developers are prepared to pay their way on Apple’s platform.

If Spotify want special priority they should develop their own AppStore and have to do all the work.

Going back to when Oculus Rift was the big thing and everyone was calling for Apple to develop a VR headset, I called the Vision Pro.

I said that Apple would in no way make a VR headset because it doesn’t fit in with their business model.

I said that if Apple went down the headset route it would build an AR headset that would have a “platform” behind it that would allow developers to make a vast array of apps for it. This would allow VR apps but it would not be its main task.

I was wholly right of course because Vision Pro makes sense for Apple.

I’m super excited to see where developers will take this but I’m worried they’ll wuss out and try and take it down the VR route.

AR has far more potential than VR.

mattinoz said:

Anilu_777 said:

I may be upgrading my Series 6 this year but as I’m in Canada I expect it to still be there as Masimo doesn’t have the patent registered here afaik

What happens if you wear the watch and cross the border?

I would expect no difference as the ban only exists on new watches being sold in the US.

Unfortunately I doubt you’d be able to buy a Canadian watch and take it into America if you’re an American as that would be considered importing I guess.

That being said, if you’re wearing it up your sleeve would anyone notice?

spheric said:

dmitrek said:

Well it's good that he said that Apple is punished for the past behaviour. I think laws does not have backward power and past behaviour can not be objected.

The antitrust legislation they violated has existed for decades.

There is absolutely nothing retroactive here. 

The law existed, Apple broke it, someone complained, Apple got investigated and now gets punished. 

The end (until appeal).

So when is the EU going after Spotify? It clearly has a monopoly on the music streaming business, has squashed competition actively, and returns nothing to the artists.

Oh wait, that’s not going to happen because Spotify is a European business.